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(AP) -- Much like its death-defying dives for fish, the brown pelican has resurfaced after plummeting to the brink of extinction. http://www.physorg.com/news177176934.html Biology Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:49:16 EST news177176934 Good news for shovelnose sturgeon may be bad news for this region's commercial fishermen, who sell them to make caviar. http://www.physorg.com/news174206557.html Biology Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:30:01 EST news174206557 (AP) -- Four years after being placed on the Endangered Species List, the dwindling sea otters of southwest Alaska on Wednesday were given an important recovery tool. http://www.physorg.com/news174198176.html Biology Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:30:01 EST news174198176 (AP) -- A federal agency must decide within three weeks whether spotted seals, which depend on sea ice off Alaska's coast, should be listed as a threatened or endangered species. http://www.physorg.com/news173382362.html Biology Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:00:02 EST news173382362 (AP) -- The federal government is considering taking the humpback whale off the endangered species list in response to data showing the population of the massive marine mammal has been steadily growing in recent decades. http://www.physorg.com/news173298649.html Biology Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:50:02 EST news173298649 University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers exploring strategies for conserving the Diamondback Terrapin along Alabama's Dauphin Island coastline are working to keep the once-celebrated turtle off the endangered species list. http://www.physorg.com/news172847683.html Biology Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:30:07 EST news172847683 (AP) -- A federal judge in Montana restored protections Monday for an estimated 600 grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park, citing in part a decline in their food supply caused by climate change. http://www.physorg.com/news172770921.html Biology Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:56:40 EST news172770921 (PhysOrg.com) -- New mobile phone software will help epidemiologists and ecologists working in the field to analyse their data remotely and map findings across the world, without having to return to the lab, according to research published in PLoS One today. The authors of the study, from Imperial College London, say the software will also enable members of the public to act as 'citizen scientists' and help collect data for community projects. http://www.physorg.com/news172299682.html Technology Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:20:01 EST news172299682 The first ever positive identification at sea of one of the world's most mysterious and endangered seabirds has raised hopes for the survival of the Fijian petrel, conservationists said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news172131289.html Biology Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:30:01 EST news172131289 (AP) -- The first public wolf hunt in decades in the lower 48 states is off to a slow start. http://www.physorg.com/news171034567.html Biology Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:50:01 EST news171034567 Pikas don't ask much. With brave squeaks, belted out from atop their rock piles, they defend their realm in the talus slopes way up here in the mountains, more than a mile in the sky, far from anyone, anywhere. http://www.physorg.com/news170963832.html Biology Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:20:03 EST news170963832 (AP) -- Gray wolf hunting was set to begin in the Northern Rockies, even as a federal judge eyed a request to stop the killing of the predators just four months after they were removed from the endangered species list. http://www.physorg.com/news170958507.html Biology Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:50:01 EST news170958507 (AP) -- Federal officials will reconsider whether a bird that breeds in Colorado and neighboring states and summers in California should be protected. http://www.physorg.com/news170743878.html Biology Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:51:36 EST news170743878 The public and scientists have helped create the first 150,000 species pages in the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), the global online project to create a page for each of the 1.8 million known species on the planet. http://www.physorg.com/news170396645.html Biology Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:24:48 EST news170396645 (AP) -- Conservation groups are asking a federal judge in Missoula to block fall wolf hunts in Idaho and Montana. http://www.physorg.com/news170064953.html Biology Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:30:02 EST news170064953 A South Korean biotechnology firm will early next year open a centre capable eventually of producing up to 1,000 cloned dogs annually, a company executive said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news169456897.html Biology Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:22:04 EST news169456897 (AP) -- American wildlife officials and ranchers are raising questions over a plan to release a rare North American gray wolf to its historic range in northern Mexico: Will it stay south of the border and what can be done if it threatens livestock? http://www.physorg.com/news169377483.html Biology Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:18:41 EST news169377483 If the federal government implements a 2007 legal interpretation of the Endangered Species Act, the likely result will be a reduction in the number of species listed for protection, scientists say. http://www.physorg.com/news168534210.html Biology Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:04:24 EST news168534210 (AP) -- Rabbits are certainly known for their propensity to multiply, but one species of jackrabbit is having trouble keeping up. There are an estimated 150 white-sided jackrabbits left in the United States, and federal wildlife officials announced Wednesday they will study the elusive rabbit to determine if it needs to be protected under the Endangered Species Act. http://www.physorg.com/news167495689.html Biology Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:00:01 EST news167495689 The wood stork, an ungainly duckling among the Everglades' elegant wading birds, has been breeding in numbers unseen in decades. http://www.physorg.com/news165689915.html Biology Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:00:03 EST news165689915 (AP) -- Fans of the giant Palouse earthworm are once again seeking federal protection for the rare, sweet-smelling species that spits at predators. http://www.physorg.com/news165594881.html Biology Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:50:01 EST news165594881 Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's legacy will live on with a new University of Central Florida study aimed at saving the endangered bunnies named after him. http://www.physorg.com/news165493785.html Biology Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:30:23 EST news165493785 (AP) -- The discovery of 10 lynx kittens this spring marks the first newborns documented in Colorado since 2006, heartening biologists overseeing restoration of the mountain feline. http://www.physorg.com/news165386313.html Biology Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:39:13 EST news165386313 (AP) -- An environmental group says it will sue the federal government to force a decision on additional protections for Arctic seals. http://www.physorg.com/news163359974.html Biology Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:46:37 EST news163359974 (AP) -- A pair of federal judges will decide which states in the Northern Rockies have enough gray wolves to allow public hunting, as the bitter debate over the region's wolves heads to courts in Wyoming and Montana. http://www.physorg.com/news163182715.html Biology Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:36:57 EST news163182715 (PhysOrg.com) -- Hands wring and teeth gnash over the loss of endangered species like the panda or the polar bear. But what happens to the parasites hosted by endangered species? And although most people would side with the panda over the parasite, which group should we worry about more? http://www.physorg.com/news163089276.html Biology Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:35:04 EST news163089276 (PhysOrg.com) -- More whales, dolphins and porpoises than was previously thought could be at risk from the effects of climate change, according to a new study. http://www.physorg.com/news163082415.html Biology Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:41:04 EST news163082415 Climate change can have devastating effects on endangered species, but new mathematical models may be able to aid conservation of a population of bighorn sheep. http://www.physorg.com/news162813646.html Biology Fri, 29 May 2009 11:01:44 EST news162813646 (AP) -- An Ethiopian lark, a Galapagos finch and a spectacularly colored hummingbird only recently discovered in Colombia have been added to the list of the world's most threatened species, an environmental group said Thursday. The International Union for Conservation of Nature - the producer each year of a Red List of endangered species - said the Sidamo lark could soon become Africa's first known bird extinction as the Ethiopian savanna becomes overgrown by bush, farmland and overgrazing. http://www.physorg.com/news161505369.html Biology Thu, 14 May 2009 07:36:50 EST news161505369 Scientists have documented the first known migration of blue whales from the coast of California to areas off British Columbia and the Gulf of Alaska since the end of commercial whaling in 1965. http://www.physorg.com/news161269538.html Biology Mon, 11 May 2009 14:06:09 EST news161269538